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... true know- ledge of things , was thought unfit , or uncapable to be brought into well - bred company , and polite con- verfation . Vague and infignificant forms of speech , and abufe of language , have fo long paffed for myf- teries of ...
... true know- ledge of things , was thought unfit , or uncapable to be brought into well - bred company , and polite con- verfation . Vague and infignificant forms of speech , and abufe of language , have fo long paffed for myf- teries of ...
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... and there of my book : fince I perfuade myfelf , that he who thinks them of moment enough to be concerned whether they are true or falfe , will be able to fee fee , that what is faid , is either not The Epijle to the Reader .
... and there of my book : fince I perfuade myfelf , that he who thinks them of moment enough to be concerned whether they are true or falfe , will be able to fee fee , that what is faid , is either not The Epijle to the Reader .
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... true and falfe ideas . SECT . 1. Truth and falfehood pro- perly belongs to propo- fitions . 2. Metaphyfical truth con- tains a tacit propofition . 3. No idea , as an appear- ance in the mind , true or falfe . 4 . Ideas referred to any ...
... true and falfe ideas . SECT . 1. Truth and falfehood pro- perly belongs to propo- fitions . 2. Metaphyfical truth con- tains a tacit propofition . 3. No idea , as an appear- ance in the mind , true or falfe . 4 . Ideas referred to any ...
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... true , of whofe truth yet we have no certain knowledge : and here we fhall have occafion to examine the reafons and degrees of affent . Ufeful to know the ex comprehen- tent of our fion . § . 4. If , by this enquiry into the nature of ...
... true , of whofe truth yet we have no certain knowledge : and here we fhall have occafion to examine the reafons and degrees of affent . Ufeful to know the ex comprehen- tent of our fion . § . 4. If , by this enquiry into the nature of ...
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... true , that the Chinese had the ufe of printing , nay , of printing in the very fame way , among them , many ages before him . So that he that fpins any thing out of his own thoughts , that feems net to him , cannot cease to think it ...
... true , that the Chinese had the ufe of printing , nay , of printing in the very fame way , among them , many ages before him . So that he that fpins any thing out of his own thoughts , that feems net to him , cannot cease to think it ...
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